I'm not, but doing it the way you suggested would actually work.

Thanks Aaron

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Aaron J. White <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are you trying to compare them to remove duplicates?
>
> If so you could combine the list and use 
> ListRemoveduplicates<http://www.openbd.org/manual/?/function/listremoveduplicates>
>
>
> On Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:36:56 AM UTC-7, Derrick wrote:
>>
>> Hmmmm,
>>
>> I am currently working with two lists in an application and had a
>> thought.  May not be an original thought but a thought nonetheless.  :)
>>
>> Has anyone ever had a need to compare two lists?  For instance lets say
>> you have the following lists and you want to know if any items from List1
>> exists in List2:
>>
>>
>>    - List1:  item1, item2, item3
>>    - List2:  item2, item3, item4, item5
>>
>> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do something like this:
>>  ListCompare(List1,List2,',')?  Possible results:
>>
>>    - Returns 1 if any value in List1 is in List2.
>>    - Returns 0 if none of List1's values are in List2
>>
>> Thoughts...
>>
>> As i was typing this a co-worker shared this link with me:
>> http://www.cflib.org/udf/**listCompare<http://www.cflib.org/udf/listCompare>.
>>  I can easily implement something like this, but the question is would
>> the OpenBD Team be willing to add a flavor of this as a built in List
>> function?
>>
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